Top campaign planks: Lowering taxes through efficient government; education and high school vocational education; medical care for senior citizens, particularly prescription drug relief; term limits for elected officials

State Senate District 24

Name: Joey Brush

Party: Republican

Age: 45

Address: 6218 Columbia Road, Appling

Occupation: Builder and real-estate developer

Education: College graduate

Experience: Incumbent state senator

Top campaign planks: Education reform, particularly restoring more local control to schools; more technical education, a key to economic development; reforming the state budgetary process; keeping criminals in prison

Name: Mike Popplewell

Party: Republican

Age: 43

Address: P.O. Box 24, Appling

Occupation: President, private probation service

Education: College graduate

Experience: None

Top campaign planks: Correcting problems with recent education reform bill; economic development and building infrastructure; planning for growing areas like Oglethorpe; reapportionment of legislative districts.

State Senate District 25

Name: Susan Olszewski

Party: Republican

Age: 43

Address: 103 Gardner Drive, Eatonton

Occupation: Bookstore owner

Education: Associate degree

Experience: None

Top campaign planks: Enhance education but preserve rights for teachers and support staff; environmental preservation; lower taxes; community programs for domestic abuse, child care, job training, and other issues

Name: Johnny Grant

Party: Republican

Age: 50

Address: 116 Sparta Highway NE, Milledgeville

Occupation: Jeweler in family business, J.C. Grant Co.

Education: College graduate

Experience: None

Top campaign planks: Education, budget reform, reducing size of state government

Name: Floyd Griffin

Party: Democratic

Age: 56

Address: P.O. Box. 1430, Milledgeville

Occupation: Vice president, Slater's Funeral Home, Milledgeville

Education: Master's degree from Florida Institute of Technology

Experience: State senator, 25th District 1994-98

Top campaign planks: Leadership, success and vision; redistricting of state legislative and Congressional districts in 2001; Central State Hospital and its future, economic development, crime, resolving the tri-state water conflict.

Name: Faye Smith

Party: Democratic

Age: 54

Address: 283 Stembridge Road, Milledgeville

Occupation: Retired educator

Education: Master's degree, six-year degree

Experience: State senator 25th District, 1998-present

Top campaign planks: Education, maintaining continuity in the state Senate to increase the district's influence, preserving the environment to ensure clean air and water, health care

Top campaign planks: Ethics, taxes and less government, reducing programs and bureaucracies, ethics and honesty, Second Amendment rights

Name: Guy Middleton

Party: Republican

Age: Not provided

Address: 474 Yahoola Creek Farm Road, Dahlonega

Occupation: Self-employed

Education: College graduate

Experience: State senator 1992-98

Top campaign planks: None provided

State Senate District 45

Name: A.C. ''Bob'' Guhl

Party: Republican

Age: 72

Address: P.O. Box 424, Social Circle

Occupation: Retired executive

Education: Some college

Experience: 45th District state senator, 1993-present; former member and chair, DeKalb County Board of Commissioners

Top campaign planks: Use state surplus to reduce taxpayers or return to taxpayers; restoring local control over roads, planning and schools; crime; modifying ''appointed bureaucracy'' set up by education reform bill

Name: Wiley Puckett

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Senate District 46

Name: Paul Broun

Party: Democratic

Age: 84

Residence: 154 S. Stratford Drive, Athens

Occupation: Retired businessman

Education: Bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Georgia

Experience: Served as 46th District senator since 1963; has served as president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce; served on Athens Regional Medical Board for 18 years; served as chairman of the Athens Housing Authority

Top campaign planks: Feels he can garner the best support of top state officials because he has worked with them for years.

Name: Doug Haines

Party: Democratic

Age: 39

Residence: 387 West Rutherford St., Athens

Occupation: Public interest lawyer

Education: Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Wyoming and law degree from the University of Georgia

Experience: Appointed by Gov. Zell Miller to the Georgia Hazardous Waste Management Authority from 1991-94; interned in the U.S. Senate; interned in the Wyoming state Senate; authored and worked for passage of many state bills currently in effect pertaining to water resources, operation of judicial system and government oversight functions.

Top campaign planks: Willing to put forth 18-hour days to fight for new U.S. congressional district with Athens, Oconee and Barrow counties at the core; vision for the future; protect water, air and open space while assuring sustained economic development.